WILLIAM GIBSON: It's funny. I came to science fiction in an odd sort of way very late in the century, and it had been my native literature, like my native code. It's what I had. I had science fiction and rock 'n' roll for culture. That's all the culture I had when I was 15 years old, and then I went out and found the rest of the world and came back to it when I was turning 30 with a lot of different experiences, with a whole bunch of life experience that I don't know to this day why I decided to try it out as a viable form. But I picked it up. It seemed to me like a pop form that had been, in effect, abandoned, at least in America by this practitioners who had originally interested in it. It seemed bankrupt in some way, and I thought that was a good thing, because it was like I had a container that I could then fill, sort of a recognizable container that I could fill with a bunch of stuff that wouldn't be that recognizable necessarily to what I thought of as the science fiction readership.